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Technical Support / Re: Mode C issue

« on: September 29, 2021, 02:54:59 pm »

Hi All,

All resolved.

The 1090 reciever appears to have been faulty. No idea why.

During normal operation the main display/home page showed this SDR as being unavailable, then OK, then unavailable again and so on, during any flight.

I spoke to Ashley at PAW about this.He has sent me a new SDR and fingers crossed. After the last flight there was no drop out or unavailable messages.

Faulty kit seems to be the issue so well done PAW.

John.

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Technical Support / Re: Mode C issue

« on: September 19, 2021, 12:26:26 pm »

Hi Peter,

Yes, red, as shown in the first picture.

Yesterday I plugged the PAW into its Anker powercore at about 10.00AM
Preflight then flew,

Rochester OCK Filton Cardiff Docks Cardiff. 

On returning to Rochester I unplugged the PAW so it had about 5-6 hours of running. Not detected anything either eay except for some gliders.

Now the route took me through Farnborough CAS that was very busy I even had to hold while a Citation flew round me and it never picked that up!

Our aircraft is a Europa so is made of composite, and we haven't had any issues to date.

The antennas are in the correct holes and I've swopped the dongles about a bit, cleaned the contacts and put them back in correct slots.

Whats a track file and where would I find it?

I think I'll send the unit back to you Lee and you can have a look at it as I'm none to technical.

John.

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Technical Support / Re: Mode C issue

« on: September 19, 2021, 08:57:51 am »

Peter,

Attached is a copy of the filter page.

John.

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Technical Support / Re: Mode C issue

« on: September 18, 2021, 05:23:35 pm »

Hi Peter,

Managed this today.

Sorry about the quality.

I didn't get any ADSB or Mode S/C targets all day on a round trip Rochester to Cardiff.

I did get a few PAW hits when flying past some gliders so I think you may be right about the SDR being NFG.

I'll call Ash. tomorrow and see about a replacement.

Thanks for the input.

John.

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Technical Support / Re: Mode C issue

« on: September 17, 2021, 05:47:56 pm »

Hi Peter,

Sorry this is my bad English and technical know how.

I only get PAW equipped aircraft shown on either the radar screen or SD display.

I don't get any ADSB aircraft shown anywhere. I assumed , wrongly , that because the top of the PAW was marked 1090 Mhz it was the mode C part.

I've cleaned all the pins with a quality solvent and repositioned the two dongles at the base of the unit but I still get the red indication on the home screen and nothing on radar and SD.

I'm off to Cardiff tomorrow for the fly in so ill turn the unit on at about 9.00 and off when I return home so it should get a long run.

I'll post some screen shots when I get back.

I have sent Lee an email.

Best regards,

John.

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Technical Support / Re: Mode C issue

« on: September 17, 2021, 07:11:36 am »

Hi Paul,

Done all of that even changed the dongle positions, it all remains exactly the same as shown above.

Looks like this is going back to PAW.

John.

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Technical Support / Mode C issue - Now Resolved

« on: September 16, 2021, 06:35:07 pm »

Hi All,

Could anyone shed some light.

I don't think the unit is working properly.

I only get a red warning against mode C

I've tried rebooting and also downloading new software but the problem remains.

Flying today I had zero indications of any type of traffic.

Any thoughts would be gratefully recieved.

Please see image.

John